Re Post #12
D H-H was at CF for the latter part of 1969 (and still going strong as our course moved on the Culdrose). I only recall two incidents involving things that go bang: the first involved "fragging" a particulalry pompous navigator PMC (No 1 Mess) by placing discreetly under his armchair in the bar a small charge of black powder - whoomph, smoke and soot everywhere. The second was to inveigle an unsuspecting Middy to have a pot at a pyramid of empty beer cans placed in front of a anteroom window. The infamous blunderbus was duly loaded with wads of wet bog paper and the young lad let fly. DH on the cans, total destruction of window behind. Good thing about D H-H was that he stuck around to take his share of the blame (well it was all his doing in reality).
Who would believe that in later life he got a job with the CAA as an examiner/regulator.
Mister B